Jackjam,

Sorry, you did not sign your E Mail. Thanks for such a prompt reply.

Kant is very specific about what we can know and what we do not know by means
of our cognitve faculty.

In his Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics he sums up what he proposed in
his Critique of Pure Reason. 'Knowledge 'of God is 'knowledge' of the
metaphysical, and "metaphysical knowledge must consist of nothing but a priori
judgments." Knowledge of the infinite as determined as attributes or substance of
God is strictly metaphysical 'knowledge' and consequently is assigned to that
which we do not know by experience. It is as simple as that. Kant divides the
two into two realities, knowledge of the metaphysical and knowlege by
experience. The hundred bucks is obviously in the realm of the finite and the realm
of experience, and in that second reality sense, it is something that we do
indeed 'know.' The infinite is in the realm of the metaphysical since we do not
have any experience of it, nor can we use any of the inductive methodolgy to
determine it. When we say that Kant's argument is falicious about the hundred
bucks because it deals with the finite only and does not deal with God as
infinite, we are talking about a dualism of two realities, one based on cognitive
information and one based on a priori information. Of course the Hegelians
will argue that there is only one reality, that of the Concept and the
infinite can be known by the force of the Hegelian System, which, for Hegelians is
far beyond just a priori information.

Regards,

Bob Fanelli


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